Diamond Body: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 20:24, 16 October 2024

Name	Diamond Body
Cost	8 points
Prerequisites	Magician Archetype and Greater Corporeal Spellcasting
Key Words	Archetype / Magician / Magic Points
Description	The character can spend 10 magic points to temporarily harden their body, declaring Diamond Body. This is not a spell or rite, but an intuitive ability arising from the character’s connection to corporeal magic. For one minute afterwards, they take damage from various damage calls as follows: Wounding: The calls Wounding and Corporeal Wounding inflict a single physical hit to the location struck, ignoring armour. Smite: The calls Smite and Corporeal Smite reduce the location to zero armour hits (if any) and inflict a single physical hit to the location struck. Crush: If the location struck is unarmoured or has no armour hits, the calls Crush and Corporeal Crush inflict a single physical hit. Damage calls accompanied with the damage types Elemental, Spiritual or Artefact have their normal effect. The number of magic points the character receives each day depends on how many skills they know that use them, see Magic Points and Work Units.
Progression	None

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 | Cost || 8 points
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-| Prerequisites || [[Greater Corporeal Spellcasting]]
+| Prerequisites || Magician Archetype and [[Greater Corporeal Spellcasting]]
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-| Key Words|| Archetype / [[Magic Points]]
+| Key Words|| Archetype / Magician / [[Magic#Magic Points|Magic Points]]
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 | Description || The character can spend '''10 magic points''' to temporarily harden their body, declaring ''Diamond Body''. This is not a spell or rite, but an intuitive ability arising from the character’s connection to corporeal magic.
-For one minute afterwards, they take damage from various damage calls as follows:
+For one minute afterwards, they take damage from various [[Calls#Damage Indicator|damage calls]] as follows:
+*'''Wounding:''' The calls ''Wounding'' and ''Corporeal Wounding'' inflict a single [[Combat#Physical Hits|'''physical hit''']] to the location struck, ignoring armour.
+*'''Smite:''' The calls ''Smite'' and ''Corporeal Smite'' reduce the location to zero [[Combat#Armour Hits|'''armour hits''']] (if any) and inflict a single '''physical hit''' to the location struck.
+*'''Crush:''' If the location struck is unarmoured or has no armour hits, the calls ''Crush'' and ''Corporeal Crush'' inflict a single '''physical hit'''.
-*'''Wounding:''' The calls ''Wounding'' and ''Corporeal Wounding'' inflict a single physical hit to the location struck, ignoring armour.
+Damage calls accompanied with the [[Calls#Damage Type|damage types]] ''Elemental'', ''Spiritual'' or ''Artefact'' have their normal effect.
-*'''Smite:''' The calls ''Smite'' and ''Corporeal Smite'' reduce the location to zero armour hits (if any) and inflict a single physical hit to the location struck.
+The number of magic points the character receives each day depends on how many skills they know that use them, see [[Character Creation#Magic Points and Work Units|''Magic Points and Work Units'']].
-*'''Crush:''' If the location struck is unarmoured or has no armour hits, the calls ''Crush'' and ''Corporeal Crush'' inflict a single physical hit.
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+| Progression || None
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